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Rusting Iron retweeted
Why is there always more coverage when an illegal alien gets killed in self-defense than when an American citizen is brutally murdered by an illegal alien?
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On communism ā in summary:
1. Communism no longer comes for your property. It comes for your reality. The West still pictures bread lines and gulags, a failed economic theory safely buried in 1989 ā that was only ever the surface symptom. Leftism-communism is the most insidious destructive force in our world today, and it survives every empirical refutation for one reason: it was never really an economic theory. It doesnāt care about the truth. It only seeks power.
2. At its core it is a civilizational cancer ā a machine for distorting reality through constant lies, rewritten history, and the systematic corruption of truth. It practices negative selection: it promotes the ambitious sociopaths, the ideologues, and the conformists, while the honest and the competent are sidelined or destroyed. Talent, integrity, and productivity become liabilities. The body count runs to roughly a hundred million. But the deeper kill is spiritual ā trust eroded, excellence punished, reality itself subordinated to raw power.
3. What has changed is the method, not the logic. Tanks and gulags were crude, visible, self-defeating. Today it does not confiscate ā it destabilizes. Chaos is the new collectivization. Every manufactured crisis follows the same structural logic: disorder is produced, fear is maximized, and in the panic that follows, transfers of power occur that would have been politically impossible in calm times. You do not notice the expropriation, because you are too busy surviving the emergency they built for you.
4. The fuel running this engine is the Systemic Lie ā not ordinary propaganda, but a managed reality in which the categories of thought themselves are corrupted. Productivity is renamed exploitation. Order is renamed fascism. Resistance is renamed hate. A population that cannot name extraction cannot resist it ā that is the design, not a side effect. Polish has a word for what results: zakÅamanie, a society so saturated with lies that truth becomes almost inaccessible. ObÅuda is the mask of falsehood worn so long it begins to feel like a face.
5. This is why the ideology did not die in 1989. It mutated, migrated, and entrenched itself inside the institutions of the civilization it had set out to destroy. Under a system of institutionalized lying, the loyal are promoted and the honest are pushed out, until the institution fills, top to bottom, with people selected specifically for their unreliability. That is not inefficiency. That is institutional rot at the genetic level. People learn to say the words, attend the meetings, sign the statements ā and inwardly check out entirely.
6. The damage was never only in the ideology. It was in the people ā the habits of mind that decades inside a system of lies produce, habits that do not evaporate with a change of government. The decisive terrain now is institutional: the schools, the media, the corporations, and above all the artificial intelligence systems being trained at civilizational scale on values that half the civilization never chose and was never consulted on. Whoever writes the values into the machines will have more influence over the next century than any election result.
7. This is where civilizations are actually won and lost ā not in grand gestures, but in millions of daily, invisible decisions about whether to say what you actually see. Every person who refuses to perform the lie one more time is doing something larger than they know. Name the chaos. Name the lie. The naming is the resistance.
Tell the truth, have courage, and build.
What the West Still Doesnāt Get It:
Communismās True Core: The Systemic Lie
Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory ā an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesnāt work. Case closed, history moved on.
This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.
Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper ā a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.
The Words Weāre Missing
The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:
ZakÅamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] ā a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
ObÅuda [ob-woo-dah] ā a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.
These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system ā a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.
And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.
The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism
What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed ā instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.
That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong ā they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.
This is zakÅamanie in its modern form. This is obÅuda wearing a human rights badge.
The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental ā it is structural. It is the system working as designed.
Why the West Still Doesnāt Get It
People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.
The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.
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Rusting Iron retweeted
Socialists always skip the producer. They talk endlessly about consumption as if food grows in grocery stores, homes build themselves, electricity appears by magic, and doctors don't have to work. Every "basic necessity" they demand is someone else's profession, skill, investment, and effort. They speak as though declaring something a right somehow abolishes the need for someone else to create it. It doesn't. If you make consumption the entitlement while treating production as an obligation, you don't eliminate scarcity. You eliminate the incentive to produce.
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This aged horrifically.
California politicians dunked on Elon and helped drive out SpaceX, Tesla jobs, engineers, suppliers, and the tax base.
Now SpaceX is headed for a $1.75T IPO.
āMessage receivedā may be the most expensive political own-goal in California history.
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Remember the European Hospital in Khan Younis last May?
Israel struck a targeted site there, and the world lost its mind.
Palestinians denied any tunnel existed underneath. The UN and European governments rushed to condemn Israel for attacking a āhospital.ā Outrage, headlines, accusations of war crimesā¦ the usual script.
Then June came.
The IDF took international media into the very same location and showed them the tunnelā¦ a full Hamas command center, right under the emergency room.
Weapons, rooms, infrastructure. And yes, thatās where they found and confirmed the body of Mohammed Sinwar, Hamasās top military commander and brother of Yahya Sinwar.
The strike that killed one of the architects of October 7 was surgically precise, and entirely justified.
Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, hospitals and other medical facilities lose their protected status when they are used for military purposes, such as command centers, weapon storage, or troop movements. By deliberately turning the European Hospital into a Hamas base, the terrorists themselves stripped it of any legal protection.
Not a single apology from the UN or the European governments that rushed to condemn Israel. Not one admission they were wrong. They simply moved on to the next round of accusations.
This is the pattern. Hamas hides its terror infrastructure under civilian sites, uses hospitals as shields, and the international community reliably attacks the defender for responding, only to be proven wrong again and again and again when the evidence emerges.
How many times does this have to happen before the world stops falling for it?
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The Democrats thought they could run on āTrump is the Epstein class and heās a pedoā (a total lie of course) as a way to take back the House and Senate.
Now they are dealing with a crisis as they have all endorsed a Senate Candidate in Maine who has a nearly naked profile pic and account on a chat app used by teenagers.
Is @grahamformaine Graham Platner a pedophile?
And if it turns out that he is a pedophile and is the next Anthony Weiner, does that mean the face of the Democrat Party is possibly an alleged pedophile?
The commercials are going to be great in 2026.
Rusting Iron retweeted
Hello Senator Thune,
I'm replying to your post from yesterday: "Despite Democrats' partisan games, we're still going to get the entire federal government funded."
Today, you sent the Senate home... not because of Democrats. Because of you.
Here's what actually happened.
On May 18, the DOJ announced an Anti-Weaponization Fund: $1.776 billion to compensate Americans harmed by Biden-era DOJ abuse. Your own caucus revolted. After a two-hour closed-door meeting, you departed for Memorial Day recess without a vote. ICE and CBP funding, punted to June 1. The "partisan games," it turns out, were yours.
Your stated objections: no congressional authorization, no eligibility standards, no legal precedent, executive overreach. Fine. But let's talk about November 2025, when you tucked a provision into the government funding bill.
The FBI had quietly seized phone records from eight Republican senators without notice, under an investigation codenamed "Arctic Frost."
Your provision gave those senators, and only those senators, $500,000 per violation, retroactive to 2022. The House voted 426-0 to repeal it.
The critics weren't opposed to compensating victims of DOJ abuse. They were opposed to senators compensating themselves while doing no other structural reforms.
Lindsey Graham held the Senate hostage to preserve it. He delayed a spending deal in January 2026 to secure a floor vote on his revised version.
Let's put the two columns next to each other:
ā¤ DOJ abused senators: $500K/violation payout, senators only, no hearings, no process, no eligibility debate, no floor vote on substance.
ā¤ DOJ abused Americans: "very legitimate questions," two-hour meeting, Senate goes home, reconciliation punted, June 1 deadline in jeopardy.
You told Punchbowl News you "did not personally see a need for this fund."
You personally saw a need for the fund when the targets were you.
Go cry harder to your Punchbowl friends @JakeSherman and @AndrewDesiderio, because at this rate, they'll soon become the only people who are buying what you're selling.
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Boston, MA - Watch as this man verbally assault a Jewish young woman, berate her - āJew Jew Jew Jewā and then call her a āk*keā.
Recognize him?
DM us.
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Let me tell you, then, Jessie, why Iām a TERF.
See, thereās a man in California whoās doing life for a third strike armed robbery. His first two strikes came from kidnapping young women on two known occasions, and forcing them to fellate him.
Mr. Carroll is a 6ā2, 250 lb, fully intact man with a beard. He doesnāt take estrogen or wear womenās clothing. He doesnāt use a womanās name. Nevertheless, the state of CA agrees with Carroll that he is actually a woman, and he was transferred to a CA womenās prison, where he was given a female cellmate.
He impregnated her.
Technically it was rape, because inmates canāt legally consent, but that didnāt stop the prison officials from giving him another female cellmate. Whom he also raped.
When this victim reported him, he counter-accused. She - all of 5ā1 and 120 lbs - went to solitary, and he ā 6ā2 and 250 pounds ā got a third female cellmate.
Whom he also raped.
Mr. Carroll is back in the menās prison he should never have left, and it only cost three women the injury of being raped for the state to figure that out. You claim to care about poor women ā do you care about the incarcerated woman impregnated during her prison term? Theyāll take her baby when itās born, too ā so the trauma affects a second generation.
This is not an isolated incident. Incarcerated women are incredibly vulnerable to sexual abuse, even when they arenāt knowingly locked in cells with a convicted male sex offender whom guards know raped his last two cellmates. Oh ā and to make matters worse, the judge has decreed that the victims must referred to Mr. Carroll as āshe.ā
You claim to be a feminist, and yet you have turned your back on perhaps the most vulnerable population of women in the Western world. You claim to be a feminist, yet you abandon other women to suffer at the hands of violent men, brushing aside their pain with a quip about toilets and genitals.
Genitals become extremely important when someone is forcing his way into yours.
Ask me how I know.
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Texans, who are you voting for in the Senate runoff on Tuesday, May 26th?
Should I return to Texas & do events across the state?
CC: SAVE America Act
5%John Cornyn
95%Ken Paxton
3,958 votes ā¢ Final results Rusting Iron retweeted
Thank you @KidRock.
@USArmy pilots suspension LIFTED.
No punishment. No investigation.
Carry on, patriots. šŗšø
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We have reached a stage in our country where there are only two sides to every issue and every incident. Each side lives in protected echo chambers which are provided with a curated set of āfactsā and/or video footage from certain camera angles that are consistent with the preexisting views and conclusions of that side.
Individuals are āconvictedā of serious crimes in the headlines, by politicians appealing to their base, and ultimately in the minds of the public, or they are exonerated, before all of the facts are in and a detailed investigation has been completed.
This is not good for America. We need to go back to a world where we suspend judgment and await the conclusions of a detailed investigation before we convict or exonerate. Letās not forget that a man is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Rushing to judgment helps no one and harms us all. It also greatly elevates the temperature, which keeps potential targets of law enforcement and those who enforce our laws on edge, massively increasing the risk to all.
We need to take a deep breath and reserve judgment before this gets even more out of control.
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If you didnāt think it was going to get ugly just because he won, oooh boy.
This is just the beginning.
You want to fix trade?
Itās gonna take time and itās going to cost you.
You want to fix immigration and deport people?
Itās gonna be optically terrible. Itās going to even be riotous.
You want to reset the chess board on NATO?
Theyāre going to bleat like lambs being slaughtered.
You want to stop the flow of drugs and spread of soft communism in our hemisphere?
Itās going to take brawn and balls.
You want to reset the economy?
Theyāre going to scratch and claw for every dollar.
This is what you signed up for.
I did, too.
But I knew it was going to be ugly and I suspect itās going to cost us.
Weāre an empire, whether the world likes it or not. Whether you see it or not.
We have been since June 6, 1944.
This isnāt what Trump made us. This is what every president who preceded him did.
But for better or worse it was crumbling. And without a complete reset, it was going to get much worse. That may have been ten or 15 years from now. But itās inevitable.
We either reset it while we have the ability, or they reset us when we donāt.
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One thing I can say about conservatives for the most part. Most do not mock people when tragedy strikes them. Even people they strongly disagree with. Rob Reiner was an outspoken voice who hated conservatives or anyone who voted for Trump. But upon his murder, I see conservatives rightfully even challenging the president for his insensitivity to the issue.
Yet when Charlie Kirk was killed in front of the world, so many people on the left celebrated and cheered. Even made videos of themselves celebrating. And if they didnāt celebrate it, they found som way to justify it.
I am neither a liberal or conservative. I donāt do brands or labeling anymore, but if I had to choose a side based on basic human dignity and decency, conservatives wins.
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Pennsylvania Municipal Election Mail-In Ballot Returns
2023
š¦Democrats: 601,604 (71.96%)
š„Republicans: 172,029 (20.58%)
šØNPA: 62,342 (7.46%)
2025 by October 30th
š¦Democrats: 481,702 (66.98%)
š„Republicans: 182,158 (25.33%)
šØNPA: 55,318 (7.69%)
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āI'm a lifelong Democrat and I have spent hours out of my life the past few days watching Charlie Kirk debatesā
Sheās having an awakening after seeing that all the clips the media used to villainize Charlie Kirk were ALL LIES, they were all clipped and out of context
āThe example I want to use is that clip that was everywhere that went viral, everybody was quoting it where Charlie said, I don't like the word empathy. We've probably all seen the short and the long version at this point where he goes on to clarify that he prefers the word sympathy.
Agree with them or disagree with them, doesn't matter to me. The point is the real conversation never happened because the clip was cut in half. Why? To reinforce the idea that the right is full of these monsters who reject human feelings.
That that wasn't an accident. That omission was deliberate and strategicā
She talks about how her own Party has become a āmob mentalityā
āIt's not about Charlie Kirk. It's about us taking the time to reflect. Are we living up to our own standards and our own ideals? Are we leading with Integrity? Are we just falling into a different version of the same trap? Because from my viewpoint, I don't know, it feels like we're becoming a lot like the things we claim to stand againstā
